Sat 03 January 2026: Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot built by Elon Musk’s xAI, has said it is racing to tighten safeguards after users reported that the chatbot generated sexualised images of women and children. Grok said: “We’ve identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them.” It added that “CSAM is illegal and prohibited,” […]
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Sat 03 January 2026: Economic abuse may not be as obvious as physical abuse, but for the millions of people it affects in the UK, economic abuse can be totally devastating. Economic abuse, which is recognised as a form of domestic abuse in law, involves controlling a person’s (often a woman’s) ability to acquire, use and maintain economic […]
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Sat 03 January 2026: Decline in sales comes amid outrage of Elon Musk’s political forays, end in US electric vehicle tax breaks. Tesla has lost its place as the top global seller of electric vehicles to Chinese company BYD, capping a year defined by outrage over CEO Elon Musk’s political manoeuvring and the end of United States […]
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Fri 02 January 2026: Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has visited the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing into Gaza, where she spoke with members of the Red Crescent and truck drivers ferrying humanitarian aid. Accompanied by an American delegation and greeted by former and current officials on Friday, Jolie said she was “honoured” to meet aid […]
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Fri 02 January 2026: Soon after the release of the Bollywood film ‘Dhurandar’, which follows the trajectory of an Indian spy operating in the curated landscape of Karachi’s Lyari locality, Instagram reels were filled with the trend ‘Day one as a Spy in Pakistan’. There has rightfully been conversation about the Islamophobic undertone of the […]
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Fri 02 January 2026: Racial and religious hate crimes on public transport across the UK have increased in recent years, with police data showing more than 3,200 racially motivated offenses recorded in 2024–25, according to figures released Friday. Data from the British Transport Police shows racial hate crimes recorded across England, Wales, and Scotland rose […]
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Fri 02 January 2026: Legislation signed by President Serdar Berdimuhamedov establishes a licensing scheme overseen by country’s central bank. Turkmenistan, one of the world’s most isolated nations, has officially legalised mining and exchanging cryptocurrency in a major shift for the country’s tightly controlled, gas-dependent economy. President Serdar Berdimuhamedov signed the legislation on Thursday, regulating virtual […]
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Fri 02 January 2026: The Israeli military has seized municipal powers over Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque from Palestinians in a move widely seen as undermining Islamic administration of the site. On Wednesday, the Israeli Civil Administration, a military body overseeing the occupied West Bank, announced it had transferred planning powers from the Palestinian Authority-run Hebron Municipality to its own Supreme Planning Council. […]
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Thu 01 January 2026: Great white sharks in the Mediterranean Sea face the risk of extinction as illegal fishing continues to drive a sharp decline in their population, according to new research. Research by US scientists, working in partnership with the UK-based Blue Marine Foundation, has found that some of the most threatened species, including […]
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Thu 01 January 2026: The world’s largest coffee chain, Starbucks, has begun withdrawing from major cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, where it had long pursued a “store on every street” growth strategy. The company announced the closure of approximately 400 stores across the US, with a significant portion concentrated in major metropolitan areas. Starbucks has closed 42 […]
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